The Playlist (Keeps a Knockin’)

Stunning, as always: Miss Nancy Wilson.

Coffeetime, May 30, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Julian Priester / Spiritsville / Chi-Chi / Jazzland / 7.12.60 
Mal Waldron / Mal/3: Sounds / The Cattin’ Toddler / New Jazz / 1.31.58 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Oh Lady Be Good! / Decca / 2.4.39 
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / Nocturne / Decca / 4.18.33 
Abe Lyman & his Orchestra / Singing a Happy Song / Brunswick / 1.17.35 / vocal = Phil Neely
T-Bone Walker / She Is Going to Ruin Me / Mercury / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young’s Orchestra
Nancy Wilson / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / The Masquerade Is Over / Capitol / 6.61 

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 2
Buddy DeFranco / In a Mellow Mood / Laura / Norgan / LA 8.10.54 / DeFranco cl, Sonny Clark p, Gene [Eugene “Senator”] Wright b and Bobby White d
The Kenny Clarke – Francy Boland Big Band / Now Hear Our Meanin’ / I’m Scared of Girls When They’re Good Looking / Columbia / Cologne 1.25–26.63 / Sahib Shihab bari 
Claude Hopkins / Let’s Jam / Late Evening / Prestige / 2.21.61 / Buddy Tate cl 
Lyda Roberti / College Rhythm / Columbia / 1934 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Eddie South & his Orchestra / Just an Old Banjo / ARC Test [unissued] / 11.23.34 
Faye Adams / The Hammer (Keeps a Knockin’) / Herald / 1956
Jean Paul Mauric / Sur le Chemin de Las Vegas / Festival Victory / Paris 1962 / avec Alan Gate et Son Orchestre

set 3
Larry Young / Young Blues / A Midnight Angel / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
Jimmy Forrest / Forrest Fire / Dexter’s Deck / New Jazz / 8.9.60 
Carl Perkins / Introducing Carl Perkins / Carl’s Blues / Dootone / LA 1955 
Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City / Lang-Worth Transcription / 12.21.43 / vocal = Dorothy Claire
The Pied Pipers / Ok’l Baby Dok’l / Capitol / Hollywood 1947 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Mills Brothers / You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You / Columbia / 1954 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / The More I See You / Columbia / 10.18.60 / Burrell g & voc, Tommy Flanagan p, Wendell Marshall b, Bobby Donaldson d

set 4
Dave Brubeck / [Time Further Out] / Slow and Easy (aka Lawless Mike) / Columbia [unissued] / 5.25.61 / Brubeck p, Paul Desmond as, Eugene Wright b, Joe Morello d
Jim Hall / Jazz Guitar / Stella By Starlight / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.57 / Hall g, Carl Perkins p, Red Mitchell b
Conte Candoli / Sincerely, Conte / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54 / Candoli t, Claude Williamson p, Max Bennett b, Stan Levey d
Peggy Lee / Trav’llin’ Light / Capitol Transcription / LA 4.4.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour & George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Hal Schaefer p, Nick Fatool d 
Inga Swenson, Johnny Laverty, John Reardon, Franca Baldwin, Suzanne Bernard, & Virginia Martin / New Faces of ’56 / Girls ’n’ Girls ’n’ Girls / RCA Victor / 1956 
The Coleman Brothers / Walls of Jericho / Coleman / 1951 

last soulful song
Darrow Fletcher / No Limit / Crossover [unissued] / 1978

After Hours on Playlist Street

Mel charming Peggy with humor.

Coffeetime, May 23, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Stix Trix / Riverside / 2.25.58
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / Mumba Neua / Prestige / 9.15.64
Harry Carney’s Big Eight / Jamaica Rumble / HRS / 3.18.46
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Crying Myself to Sleep! / Victor / 9.25.30 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio; with celeste! 
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / I Just Thought of You / Freedom / Houston c. 6.49
Sarah Vaughan / I’m Glad There Is You / EmArcy / 12.16.54

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 2
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Fools Rush In / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Ray Charles / The Great Ray Charles / I Surrender Dear / Atlantic / 11.20.56 / with celeste!
Sandy Williams’ Big Eight / After Hours on Dream Street / HRS / 11.5.45
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Bakiff / Victor / Hollywood 6.5.41
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Changes / Victor / Chicago 11.23.27 / vocal = Bing Crosby, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, Austin Young, Harry Barris, Al Rinker
Hildegarde / There’s a Small Hotel / Columbia / London 7.14.36 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends
Joe (Everyday) Williams / Blow Mr. Low / Savoy / Chicago 1.23.53 / with Red Saunders & his Orchestra 

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Ray Charles Presents / Tin Tin Deo / Atlantic / 1959
Joe Newman / Soft Swingin’ Jazz / Scotty / Coral / 1.15.58
Howard McGhee / Turnip Blood / Dial / 12.3.47
The Mills Brothers / What’s the Reason (I’m Not Pleasing You)? / Decca / 2.20.35
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Blue Moon / V-Disc 569B / 1944
Mel Tormé / My Kind of Music / Welcome to the Club / Verve / London 7.19.61 / with Wally Stott & his Orchestra

set 4
Marty Paich / Marty Paich Quartet Featuring Art Pepper / Sidewinder / Tampa / 2.20.57
Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Up in Quincy’s Room / ABC-Paramount / 1956
The Four Brothers / …Together Again! / Four Brothers / RCA Victor / 2.11.57
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / No One Else Could Be / King / 6.28.51 / vocal = Annisteen Allen & Melvin Moore
Etta James / You Got It / Cadet / Muscle Shoals 8.68
Selah Jubilee Singers / We Shall All Meet in Heaven / Decca / 11.16.39

last soulful song
Nate Evans / Main Squeeze / Twinight / Chicago 1972
The Mark-Keys / My Sweet Baby / TCB / Chicago 1967

Have a Little Playlist on Me

Come on, Bozzies.

Coffeetime, May 16, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / This is New / It’s You or No One / Riverside / 3.28.57
Art Pepper / Smack Up / Smack Up / Contemporary / 10.24-25.60
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Close to Five / Decca / 3.16.39
Anson Weeks & his Orchestra / Have a Little Dream on Me / Brunswick / San Francisco 8.26.34 / vocal = Kay St. Germaine & Ben Gage
Dinah Washington / My Lovin’ Papa / Apollo / LA 12.10-13.45
Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Angel Eyes / Sing / Chicago 2.59

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 2
Gene Ammons / The Big Sound / That’s All / Prestige / 1.3.58
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Dear Ann / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians [Jim Holstein and Bob Pauole] / (Coffee in the Morning) Kisses in the Night / Bluebird / Chicago 12.12.33 / vocal = Jim Holstein
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / I’m My Own Grandpaw / Columbia / 12.22.47 / with the Clooney Sisters (Rosemary & Betty)
Little Milton / Somebody Told Me / Sun / Memphis 7.28.53

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Crazy Baby! / Sonnymoon for Two / Blue Note / 1.4.60
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Honeysuckle Rose / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Miles Davis / Little Willie Leaps / Savoy / 8.14.47
Boswell Sisters / Sleep, Come On and Take Me / Brunswick / 8.6.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Moments in the Moonlight / Victor / 2.26.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / The Shadow of Your Smile / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66

set 4
Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / The Fruit / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57
Bud Shank / Soundtrack for Slippery When Wet / Surf Pipers / World Pacific / Hollywood 4.18.59 / Shank as, Billy Bean g, Gary Peacock b, Chuck Flores d 
King Cole Trio / Sunday / radio transcription King Cole Trio Time, NBC radio / Hollywood 3.6.48
Larry Darnell / Lost My Baby / Regal / New Orleans 1949 / with Paul Gayten’s Band
Bobby Darin / Oh! Look at Me Now / You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It) / Capitol / LA 7.27.62 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Billy May
The Radio Four / How Much I Owe / Nashboro / Nashville 1951-52

last soulful song
Betty Wright / Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do / Alston / 1968

Playlist in Calico

I’d never ever pass you by, Cary.

Coffeetime, May 2, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Yusef Lateef / Other Sounds / Minor Mood / New Jazz / 10.11.57 
Sonny Rollins / Saxophone Colossus / St. Thomas / Prestige / 6.22.56 sus
Six Jumping Jacks / Say Mister! Have You Met Rosie’s Sister? / Brunswick / 3.9.26 / vocal = Tom Stacks & ensemble 
Luke Jones & His Five Joes / Going Down Slow / Atlas / 1946 / vocal = George “The Blues Man” Vann 
Ruth Price / Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole / Nobody’s Heart / Contemporary / live, The Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.3-5.61 

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 2
Duke Jordan / East and West of Jazz / Yes, He’s Gone / Charlie Parker Records / 2.13.62 
Coleman Hawkins / Night Hawk / Night Hawk / Prestige Swingville / 12.30.60 
Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers / Egyptian Fantasy / Victor / 1.8.41 
Skinnay Ennis & his Orchestra / A Little Bit Independent / radio transcription / 1948
Alton Redd & his Low Down Blues Band / But She’s Not for Me / Black & White [unissued] / 1945
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Oops! / Decca / LA 11.23.51 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Soul Call / Kenny’s Theme / Prestige / 4.7.64 
Red Garland / Red’s Good Groove / Red’s Good Groove / Prestige / 3.22.62 
Coleman Hawkins & his 52nd Street All Stars / Spotlite / RCA Victor / 2.27.46 
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / Beedle De Beedle De Bop Bop (Adi Eedi Idio) / Decca / 7.19.37
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Victor / 3.4.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Kenny Dorham / This Is the Moment! / I Remember Clifford / Riverside / 7.7.58 

set 4
Dave Pell / Love Story / Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) / Atlantic / Hollywood 2.20.56 
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Gal in Calico / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney 1955 / Spring Is Here / Prestige / 2.18.55 
King Cole Trio / For Once in Your Life / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.2.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
T-Bone Walker / Prison Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 12.16.47
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Pass Me By / Columbia / 1967
The Coleman Brothers / His Eye Is on the Sparrow / Decca / 3.21.44 

last soulful song
Kiki Dee / I Dig You Baby / World Pacific / LA 1966